Vince Czyz

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2023

December 29, 2023
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An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

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Book Review: “Venus&Document” — Framing the World in Abstractions

May 21, 2022
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.

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Book Review: “Blue Swan Black Swan” — Madness Made Beautiful

September 16, 2021
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Whether we call this slim volume poetic prose or prose poetry, a novella or a collection of verse, seems beside the point. It is haunting, hypnotic, and moving.

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Book Review: “Disquiet” — A Compassionate Litany of Tragedies in the Middle East

July 28, 2021
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This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.

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Book Review: “Brut: Writings on Art & Artists” — Proceed with Caution, But Proceed

June 21, 2021
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These are not persuasive essays; rather, they are thought-provoking juxtapositions of facts, observations, and speculations — with a teleology.

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Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2020

December 20, 2020
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An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

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Literary Remembrance: Homage to Guy Davenport — Brilliance Worth Savoring

May 18, 2020
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The fifteenth anniversary of the death of a grievously neglected writer whom critics almost universally acclaim a creative genius.

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Recommended Books, 2019

December 14, 2019
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An eclectic round-up of our favorite books of the year from our critics.

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Book Review: “Five Cities” — Urban Meditations on Turkish History and Culture

June 27, 2019
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Five Cities is a species of psychogeography, a deep map, that weighs the effects of topography, urban environments, and monuments of the past on mood and perspective.

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